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Apple announced one important — and immediate — upgrade at WWDC this week, the introduction of support for third-party large language models (LLM), such as ChatGPT from within Xcode. It’s a big step that should benefit developers, accelerating app development.
Apple’s biggest moneymaker — also remains sluggish, especially in China.Moreover, finding the company’s all-important “next big thing” has proved elusive. Apple killed a much-anticipated car project last year,
What follows is all reckless speculation—you’ve been warned. But maybe Apple sees all this irritation, and maybe the reason why they’re so “ late to the AI party ” is because they’re looking at the AI belief bell curve—which I doubt, because it’s something I just made up.
The researchers examined what they call "large reasoning models" (LRMs), which attempt to simulate a logical reasoning process by producing a deliberative text output sometimes called " chain-of-thought reasoning" that ostensibly assists with solving problems in a step-by-step fashion.
Apple execs didn't have a super satisfying answer about what went wrong with AI Siri, but they also don't really need one.
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Apple took a measured approach to AI at WWDC. A new research paper suggests the company is skeptical about some recent AI advances too.
Apple’s big developer summit is a Silicon Valley institution. The company has been hosting it every year since 1983, and in more recent years the events have become a fixture of the tech hype machine — a chance for Apple to show off its latest software to investors and the folks who build apps for those products.
Apple Intelligence was designed to leverage things that generative AI already does well, like text and image generation, to improve upon existing features.
Liquid Glass design, Apple Intelligence APIs, and visionOS 26 tools highlight Apple’s 2025 State of the Union for developers.
Apple announced on Monday a slew of artificial intelligence features including opening up Apple Intelligence's underlying technology in a modest update of its software and services as it lays the groundwork for future advances.
Apple spoke through why the company delayed its AI-powered Siri. It first teased what the tool would be able to do at WWDC 2024.